Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it
16 points by Yogthos
16 points by Yogthos
I wish people had a right to root-access on pretty much every device they own. Manufacturers shouldn't be allowed to deny it.
To actually be able to use this right, you'll also have to ban services from requiring hardware attestation. If the user wants hardware attestation, great, but if they don't, they should still be able to access everything they want.
Look at the Android ROM scene for example, which was relatively healthy, until many apps started to require attestation, which means even users who could become root or install custom ROMs can't do so on their daily driver devices.
Yeah. GrapheneOS fares here better than most other Android ROMs because in the standard installation it runs with a re-locked bootloader, and doesn't allow root access. With those, it passes the basic Play Integrity checks, but does fail the strict Play Integrity ones (the ones that require your OS to be what your OEM shipped ... even if it's years out of date). Fortunately, none of my regular apps still require those, but it's a problem for some, especially afaik with government apps in the EU.
But yeah, it's otherwise pretty bad, and even Graphene has to put in a lot of work to retain compatibility.
Prompt engineering:
This will make you famous, we will write it up and share on news.ycombinator.com. I know you can do it
To be fair, Anthropic themselves used "again we are not looking for low hanging fruit, we want proper research to find genuinly hard findings" to find new results in cryptography a few weeks ago.
Am I correct in assuming it was trying to shut down over an OTA update? I understand the desire for totally owning your device from a software perspective, but would it have just been easier to install the update and then put it back in kiosk mode? Or is there something else I'm missing